50 Informative Maps As Shared By This Page That Might Change Your Perspective On Things

Easier solution os for the West Coast form one country. A second country around the Great Lakes and a Third in New England. The rest of the rest of what's left will quickly discover where the money was coming from.

Flat Earthers hate this I'm sure.

I was about to say "I thought Damascus was the longest continually inhabited city?" then remembered that Syria is in Asia and I'm an idiot.

Now tell what Gerunda, Barkenos and Batalyaws means

2km for fun or how about 4 Km for work , the deepest mine in the world is the Mponeng Gold Mine in South Africa. It reaches a depth of over 4 kilometers (approximately 2.5 miles) below the surface.

I was born, and lived in the blue part for almost 40 years. While I have assimilated pretty well to all aspects of life in France, the fact that everyone is late is not easy to get used to. I carry a book, and try not to be annoyed, but it still annoys me.

[i was curious and googled it]: the word "yankee" likely derives from the Dutch diminutive "Janke" or "Janneke," which means "Little John" (a diminutive of the common Dutch name Jan, equivalent to English "John"). This nickname was probably first used by Dutch settlers in New Netherland (modern New York) as a derogatory term for English colonists in neighboring New England, particularly in Connecticut. The term was first used derogatorily by the British in the mid-18th century and appears as early as the 1750s to describe American colonists, often paired with terms like "doodle" and "dandy". During the American Revolution, Americans reclaimed the word as a badge of pride. The word "Yankee" later evolved to mean Northerners or Union soldiers during the Civil War.

An interesting perspective. And one I’ve never thought of before!

Not surprising, since both places are ruled by the same person.

There is a large contingent of people who vehemently reject the notion of the government being at all responsible for “taking care of its people” outside of military services to protect borders. I think those people should all move to the Dakotas, build a fence around them, promise them they won’t be “invaded,” then they can live out their rugged individualist cosplay while the rest of us move on.

Can't wait to take the train from California to Tokyo

Raged*

Upvote for the smaller languages being included. In Ireland the official term for the police is "Garda Siochana", "Guardians of the peace", mostly referred to as "The guards"

Happiness with your body at 74!? Psychological well-being at 82!? I guess there is hope for me yet.

Brilliant work from the censorship here, glad to have been saved from rooster noises

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZhanmadaoThe awful truth:

But swords are no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses.

I love edged weapons and was familiar with most of these. A basket-hilted sword is NOT a claymore! They're probably referring to a Scottish backsword, which does have a basket hilt. A claymore is larger and heavier, with a handle that can be gripped with one or both hands. Sometimes called a hand-and-a-half.

Fun fact. Straight swords are effective against people wearing armor, whereas a curved blade is a stronger blade for hand to hand combat. Countries that did not use metal armor in combat never bothered with straight swords. Japan, for instance, was an island nation with limited access to metals. Building a full suit of steel armor would have been prohibitively expensive. The Arabian countries didn't use armor either, because anyone in metal armor would die from the heat before any battle started.

and then somebody invented the longbow. and then gunpowder

Before gladius there were xiphos (from 1200 BCE) and kopis (7th century BC). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiphos - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopis

In case anyone's interested, the combined population of the yellow countries is just less than twice that of Germany.

I am proud to be British, but more proud to be Scottish. It annoys me that people in the USA confuse England with Britain/United Kingdom.

Fսck putlerstan!!

my dad recently got back into smoking after quitting cold turkey like two decades ago... disappointed

Holland isn't a thing, it's simply the incorrect name (although historically it makes sense) for the Netherlands. It's not that North Holland and South Holland together form a region called Holland, that's not how it works. (Kinda like how you don't say South Dakota and North Dakota together are called Dakota (for as far as I know, I'm not American obviously)). Here in the Netherlands we don't use the word Holland to refer to those 2 provinces together, we only use Holland as an alternative name for the whole Netherlands. And when Dutch people call themselves or someone else a Hollander, they mean Dutch, not that they're specifically from North Holland or South Holland.

Medical things being used as profanity? That’s a new one on me.

Good luck with that. Siberia is huge. It makes Texas look like a Tyco Toy. I said what I said.

It's not true. Poles generally enjoy it when you speak in Polish with them. Many even find it admirable that you try to learn our language. And Germans definitely appreciated when I tried talking in German with them and were vey understanding.

It's just because the hours of sun.

The IT one is surprising to me.

Shame you can't see Uk in there anymore (Brexit etc.) UK has one of the worst. And they call it a "benefit" after working all your life, then you are deemed "benificial "to have one. UK ......

i wonder if it means dentistry is more (or less) affordable in the lighter blue areas?

And the smallest country with the fewest people on this list is...

It was a the summer of soldiers coming home from war

Ever read What If by Randall Munroe?

F.eck off!

We cannot afford that. Right now, 2.5 Earths would be necessary to provide a decent quality of live for all 8 billion people. This is three times more than during the glorified 1950s, when eveything seemed to be possible and still people starved.

Australia wins

Yeah, but won't be easy ...Also, my ancestors would be very surpried, learning, that they'll land in the middle of Europe, just 300 years later.

Our push towards green energy is something I'm actually quite proud of the UK for. And I'm not a national pride kind of person.

Just like BC, Canada :) (although that’s not a country capital haha, just our provincial capital)

It depends on what products this is about. If it is seasonal, locally grown food, then there is no surprise that an agricultural oriented country as Poland is cheap. Or electronics? And without relation to the local income, not very informative.

The censor bots cannot be reasoned with.

One from the UK: "Only a Scotsman makes a Yorkshireman look generous" ;-)

I like how they exclude uk from Europe every time but includes turkey, one is like 100% in Europe but excluded because of politics and the other one is like 5% but included to not offending it.

SICILY NUMERO UNO 🇮🇹

Somewhat misleading, many of these shifts were not a direct result of the war. But the crazy artificial borders and countries immediately pre-war gives a good idea about why the war came about in the first place,

Migration of Islam will be the downfall of all who do it. It's happening already. Sadly.

Ukraine has been a bit distracted from business of late

Tarrifs will help balance this.

Yay! We're in Canada!

Saddened to see the US still so high up the list, and the EU as an entity so far down.

Why does the title say 'summer' school break? These are total number of weeks of holiday for the whole year! For example, you might have 4 terms of 9 or 10 weeks, plus somewhere between 16 and 12 weeks of holiday.

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Why are those capital cities so cold?

Also.... land. Fewer people live in the sea